Former Bond girl Gloria Hendry still looks as glamorous as she did 50 years ago when she had her big break in Live and Let Die.
DailyMail.com saw Hendry running errands in Beverly Hills on Wednesday looking trendy as always in a red and yellow leather jacket, leggings, multicolored shoes and stylish shades.
At one point, the actress collected mail from a post office and single-handedly carried a large box to her car.
Hendry, who celebrates her 74th birthday today, has kept a relatively low profile in Hollywood since she became 007’s first black love interest opposite Roger Moore in 1973.
DailyMail.com saw Gloria Hendry, 74, stop at the post office on Wednesday while running errands in Beverly Hills
Hendry still looks chic and glamorous 50 years after her big break in Live and Let Die opposite Roger Moore
At one point, the actress collected mail from a post office and single-handedly carried a large box to her car
The Florida-born model turned actress played the role of Rosie Carver, who is famously shot and killed in Bond’s arms.
Her steamy scenes with Roger Moore catapulted her into the spotlight, and the Ian Fleming classic featured a soundtrack written by Paul McCartney.
In his memoirs, Moore described how the passion between him and Hendry was a sore point for his wife Luisa Mattioli at the time.
He wrote: ‘As Bond I make love to Rosie Carver, played by the beautiful black actress Gloria Hendry, and my wife Luisa has learned from certain Louisiana ladies that if there is such a scene, they will not go to the movies . .
“I personally don’t care, and it makes me all the more determined to play the scene.”
Moore and Hendry’s love scene was cut from the film when it was shown in apartheid South Africa, where interracial relationships were banned.
In 2015, Hendry and other former black Bond girls were honored at the African American Film Critics Association’s Black Women of Bond tribute.
Reminiscing about her days as a Bond girl, she told Ebony Magazine at the event, “I had a penthouse hotel room in London at the Pinewood Studios. I was treated like I thought I was in the movie, (like) I was playing Bond! They made all my clothes. It was amazing!’
In his memoirs, Roger Moore described how the passion between him and Hendry was a sore point for his wife Luisa Mattioli at the time. “I personally don’t care, and it makes me all the more determined to play the scene,” he wrote
Hendry wore a trendy red and yellow leather jacket, leggings, multicolored shoes and stylish shades for her Wednesday outing
Hendry made history as the first black Bond girl to have a relationship with the British secret agent in 1973
Hendry, who celebrates her 74th birthday today, March 3, has kept a relatively low profile in Hollywood since her Bond role
The Florida-born model turned actress played the role of Rosie Carver, who is famously shot and killed in Bond’s arms
Trina Parks was the first black actress to be cast as a Bond girl, starring as Thumper in Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery in 1971.
Parks did not play a romantic partner for Connery’s Bond, but was a feisty nemesis.
Hendry made history as the first black Bond girl to have a relationship with the British secret agent.
Grace Jones played Bond’s sexy henchman May Day in 1985’s A View To Kill, opposite Roger Moore.
When Halle Berry was cast as Jinx in Die Another Day opposite Pierce Brosnan in 2002, she was the first black Bond girl in 17 years.
And in 2012, Naomie Harris starred opposite Daniel Craig in Skyfall and in 2015 in Spectre.
